decal becomes transparent according to the transparency of the material

[henriquemelo1995]

hello.

So, i was trying to apply a decal on a bottle, when the material of the bottle is opaque (doesn't matter the material as long as it is opaque), the decal looks good, but when i try to apply it on a transparent material the decal becomes transparent according to the transparency of the material. does anyone knows how to fix it?

Thank you!

[mcgyvr]

Inventor has an annoyance in that surface on which a decal is being applied will effect the appearance of the decal as you can see. Specifically with "shiny" surfaces..

A workaround is to make the decal its own part and create an assembly in which you apply the decal. 

See post 8 from mpatchus here https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/decals-becoming-washed-of-colour-once-ray-traced/td-p/...

[SBix26]

Transparency setting of the active appearance affects everything for the body that it is applied to.  So the solution is to create two bodies, one for the bottle and one for the decal.  Make the Part-level appearance opaque, then change the bottle body to your chosen transparent appearance.  As @mcgyvr mentioned above, you may have to create a separate label body to which you can apply the decal.

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Sam B

Inventor Pro 2023 | Windows 10 Home 21H2

[johnsonshiue · Accepted solution]

Hi Folks,

Another low-tech approach without creating the surface body is to simply apply the Decal twice.

Share the sketch and add another Decal on top of the existing one.

Many thanks!

[henriquemelo1995]

Thanks for all the solutions guys! really appreciate it. 

for the @johnsonshiue solution to work i had to apply this technique about 4 times to make it fully opaque

I also found that for some reason this bug disapear when i activate the ray tracing option on view tab

Thanks everybody!